{"id":3018,"date":"2003-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/21\/2003-04-21-designer-revives-the-art-of-herbal-dyeing-for-his-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2003-04-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-21T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-21-designer-revives-the-art-of-herbal-dyeing-for-his-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/21\/2003-04-21-designer-revives-the-art-of-herbal-dyeing-for-his-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Revives the Art of Herbal Dyeing for his Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_234364,0002.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 15, 2003: Reviving the ancient art of herbal dyeing after three years of extensive research, Aura Herbal Wear has introduced a line of garments using 100 percent natural fabrics and dyes. Arun Baid of the Ahmedabad-based company says, &#8220;It is anti-allergic, anti-microbial and has antiseptic properties and the dyes used are eco-friendly. After dyeing, the waste can be converted into manure.&#8221; Using herbs such as tulsi, neem, turmeric, henna and pomegranate rind, the fabrics are even laid in the sun to be bleached. Baid&#8217;s exhibition is supported by Maneka Gandhi who claims that the herbal wear has medicinal properties.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, April 15, 2003: Reviving the ancient art of herbal dyeing after three years of extensive research, Aura,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}